adverb, adjective, noun
adverb towards the bottom of a hill; in a direction that goes down:
to run / walk / cycle downhill
OPPUPHILL
IDIOMS
go downhill to get worse in quality, health, etc.
SYNDETERIORATE:
Their marriage went downhill after the first child was born. * He's been going slowly downhill since he came out of hospital.
adjective going or sloping towards the bottom of a hill:
a downhill path
OPPUPHILL
IDIOMS
be (all) downhill
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for downhill is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does downhill appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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